Notes from official records,

Containers:
Box 2 (5-Notes), Folder 7
Scope and content:

a. Amherst Co. Records: Criminal Records, Chancery book, Marriage bonds.

b. <i>Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico</i>.

c. McMillan, Hamilton. Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony.

d. <i>Psychological Review</i>, vol. 29, 1922, p. 221.

e. Surface, G. T. "Racial and Regional Study of the Virginia Population".

f. (U.S. Census?] - "1908 on census: List of Isshy Area, Miss Packard's notes".

g. "U.S. Census Estimate of Indians in Virginia, 1920".

h. "Miscegenation - Virginia".

i. "Virginia - Race - Legal Definition - History".

j. Virginia code "1/16th or more negro...".

k. Miscellaneous: "Registrations in Marriage Licenses", "Virginia Indians", "Re Amherst Indians", 'Washington Library".

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Collection terms of access:
Arthur H. Estabrook gifted this collection to the University Libraries without a clear transfer of rights. Thus, copyright is held by Estabrook heirs until 70 years after his death in 2043.

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